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ubiquity package

Ubiquity installer crashed during "Almost finished copying files"

Bug #687941 reported by Chad A Davis on 2010-12-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #188976: ubiquity crashed with OSError in copy_all(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

According to syslog the error seems to occur during copy_all due to

OSError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/target/usr/local/man'

On my system, /usr/local comes from an existing partition, mounted to /usr/local. From a previous Ubuntu installation, common directories, like "man" already exist there. This seems to be creating a problem for the installing when trying to re-create/copy files there, as far as I can tell.

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Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote on 2010-12-09:

Ubiquity fails during copy_all when e.g. /usr/local/man already exists Edit (127.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote on 2010-12-09:

PS. This is ubiquity 2.4.8 installing Ubuntu 10.10

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Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote on 2010-12-09:

I then manually deleted the directories, e.g. "man", "share", and so on, from the mounted /usr/local and reran the installer. The installation then completed successfully.

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-07-29